The 8th episode of the highly revered Dragon Ball series has received an impressive animated tribute from hundreds of western fans, boasting drastically varying levels of artistic quality that may unfortunately garner both praise and ridicule…

The animation, which initially began production last December and has involved over 250 artists:

The animation team also mentioned that they were inspired by the previously released Sailor Moon fan animation, which may explain the wildly fluctuating level of quality…

keep in mind anime wasn’t as accepted or popular as today so many in the anime industry weren’t able to afford any good voice actors. most people who were voice actors mainly did so in cartoons since that’s were they were more likely to get more recognition. of course money also had a lot to do with it.

Would’ve been great had it not been ruined with garbage “stylized” art and funny le swag maymays added for no reason. There’s some really good art in there completely stifled by cartoony trash that’s better suited for a crappy steven universe tumblr or something, not this.